Education & Workforce Development
Viewpoints: Capturing our city’s economic growth potential hinges upon a well-supported MPS system
MPS is Milwaukee. There is not one other institution you can look to that represents our city more authentically....
Viewpoints: Each family deserves a choice, regardless of income, when it comes to educating their children
As an eighth grader growing up in Chicago’s Little Village (La Villita) neighborhood, I learned through personal experience a...
Public, charter, private: What’s the difference?
With a publicly funded school voucher program dating back to 1990, Milwaukee is considered the birthplace of the modern...
Leaders of high-performing Milwaukee schools say funding is biggest impediment to adding seats
In a city where roughly 30,000 students attend low-performing schools, nonprofit and business leaders have rallied around a goal...
All-In Milwaukee takes aim at Milwaukee’s college completion crisis
For the past four years, All-In Milwaukee has been working to address what it calls “the completion crisis”: Too...
Employ Milwaukee program will provide free training, guaranteed interview at Advocate Aurora
Employ Milwaukee has created a new workforce initiative that will provide training at no cost and result in a guaranteed job interview at Advocate Aurora Health.
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UWM to consolidate, realign some colleges and schools
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will consolidate eight schools and colleges into four new colleges, under a plan recently approved by the UW System Board of Regents.
Marquette receives $1.75 million gift to support Center for Real Estate
Marquette University alumni Perry and Sheila Vieth are giving $1.75 million to establish an endowed directorship in its College of Business Administration’s Center for Real Estate.
Amid shortages, DWD directing $1 million to teacher training, recruitment
The state of Wisconsin is making $1 million available to support the recruitment and training of new teachers in low-income and urban area school districts.
Employees at Oak Creek Starbucks want to unionize
A group of local Starbucks cafe employees are pushing for union representation as part of larger organizing efforts across the chain's national footprint.
